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01 Apr 2015 9:47:12am

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‎3] What happened to Giordano Bruno in 1600, as a supporter of Copernicus ? ‎‎ Why did Galileo, a supporter of Copernicus, at age 70 years, at his 1633 trial state ‎‎"...should I know any heretic, or person suspected of heresy, I will denounce him to this Holy ‎Office, or to the Inquisitor or Ordinary of the place where I may be. " ?‎http://galileo.rice.edu/abo/developers.htmlhttp://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/recantation.html

Only in a liberal democracy (eg the NO Religious Test, Article VI, and the 1st Amendment, in the ‎Bill of Rights, US Constitution) would the HELIOCENTRIC solar system, physical FACT, (eg as ‎carried by the Copernicus/Galileo movement into modern science) be given a fairer historical ‎science review. ‎

There were censored versions, of Heliocentric opinion, deemed as a mere "hypothesis", as decided ‎by Pope Urban VI, and most subsequent Popes. This can be checked from historical documents, ‎peer reviewed evidence, (eg "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"). The article by Prof P. Harrison does ‎not give this any mention. Obviously men like Galileo were raised in a strict RCC culture, but their ‎‎"science" does not rank as officially authorised science, decided by the "Church" as defined by the ‎Popes/Holy Office/Holy See. ‎